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THE MANAGER
In the music business the artist has creative power, the record company has institutional power, and the manager has common sense.
“You don’t choose this job,” said Scooter Braun. “You survive it.”
Braun managed Justin Bieber, Ariana Gran...
UP A BIT - DOWN A BIT
In 1966, when I started managing the Yardbirds, amplification meant turning up the guitar amp ⏤ usually a Vox AC30. There were no mixing desks and only the house PA. No front-of-house engineer. No gaffer-taped wires across the floor. Not ev...
BACKGROUND BILLIONS
The other evening, I was talking to my old friend Paul Samwell-Smith, the bass player with the Yardbirds when I managed them in the Sixties. Because of the five-hour time difference, Paul was on his first beer of the evening while I was fin...
TELLING IT LIKE IT ISN’T
A white lie. A tiny act of cowardice. I tell the dinner host their awful food is wonderful. I thank my Vietnamese cleaning lady for the terrible seaweed tea she brings me each time she makes a trip home. I periodically congratulate the coup...
HAPPY
After lunch today I fell asleep on the sofa. When I woke up, the radio was playing that miserable little dribble of a song, Happy.
God, how I hate it.
From the moment I first heard it, I thought it wasn’t worth a second of anyone’s time....
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